Python Written in C?

[Paul Rudin]

DaveM <asma61 at dsl.pipex.com> writes:

> On Mon, 21 Jul 2008 03:18:01 +0200, Michiel Overtoom <motoom at xs4all.nl>
> wrote:
>
>
>>Many major text/word processing programs (Emacs, vi, MS-Word) are also
>>written in C.
>
> I thought Emacs was written in Lisp.

The core - including the lisp interpreter - is written in C. A lot of
the user functionality is written in (emacs) lisp.